If you want to experience a really extraordinary visit to the cinema again, you shouldn’t miss flow on the big screen. The animated film by director Gints Zilbalodis takes you into a mysterious future in which no people no longer exist on earth. To do this, the remaining animals have to fight for survival in a large flood.
The Latvian filmmaker created an incomparable experience from this idea that With a special animation style and completely without dialogues come. With the Oscars, Flow was also recently able to record a great success.
Special adventure animated film in the cinema: that’s what flow is about
There are only animals in the world of flow, while humanity only remain traces. At the center of the story, a cat has to save itself on a boat when its habitat is destroyed by a large flood. Here she meets a Capybara, a lemurs, a golden retriever and several birds. Together, the animals wrapped up to survive in the mystical world full of dangers.
Look here a German trailer for flow:
Flow – Trailer (German) HD
For the representation of the animals, the director and his team have given up to give their characters votes. Instead, the flow protagonists only communicate over Authentic, real -sounding animal noises.
The animation style, which is often reminiscent of computer games and, despite artificial environments, also relies on the realistic behavior of the animals. In the mix, this results in a new, own look that fascinates and touches.
Flow has just won an Oscar and is celebrated by the criticism
At this year’s award of the Academy Awards, the director was able to look forward to the highest award. Flow was crowned with the Oscar as the best animated film. Gints Zilbalodis celebrated the victory with one Detour to a popular California fast food chain:
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With the US criticism aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film also has a really strong rating cut of 97 percent. In her criticism for inverse, Hoai-Tran Bui writes:
It would be easy to compare flow with a Pixar or Disney film, but the Latvian film has a nice minimalism that is miles away from the stormy dialogues and the winking humor that are typical of American animated films. Instead, a strange melancholy can be felt in the film, while the animals drive through an abandoned world that all signs that people inhabited them a long time ago, but either gave them up or died in front of the flood. […]All of this combines a sweet, beautifully designed eco-fable, which proves that there can be life even after the apocalypse, if only for the sweetest, most furry creatures. His simple, lovable story, combined with its unique animation, is closing to Flow one of the most unique, refreshing apocalypse films that have appeared this decade.
Flow is now running in German cinemas.